If I become rich I will download the entirety of knowyourmeme and engrave it on a giant block of granite or carve it into the side of a mountain. Our descendants will thank me.
There's def already stuff like interpreting use of emojis. For example sometimes you have text messages show up in a court case and there are people who can officially "interpret" what the emojis mean for the court.
Oh, I'm sure there are plenty at the moment. It will just fade over time until it enters the same realm as something like "Clay Pots of Ancient Sites Found in The London Underground".
I remember the first time I was shown a meme by a friend. She showed me a rage comic on 9 gag and I absolutely didn't get it obviously and she was desperate to explain and just said "yeah it's not that funny but when you see them often you kinda start getting what they mean" and I thought that's a stupid ass concept and wtf.
Well, here we are now. It's about 15 years later. By now I have a toddler who speaks "English" but it's basically just meme quotes in fitting situations because her parents mostly communicate in memes.
That's okay, some big thing like a Carrington Event is going to destroy the Internet as we know it one day and we'll lose a huge chunk of human history that was never preserved any other way.
A bit off topic, but I was playing RimWorld and ended up with a colonist nicknamed Real Estate. He got captured during a raid at one point. I kept waiting for the quest to rescue him so I could post this meme, but it never happened...
If you're not a stoner and a fan of Adult Swim or an internet person: You wouldn't get this meme right fucking now.
You have to have at least seen the clip from Tim & Eric: Awesome Show, Great Job to understand it and that is a pretty big ask for a super niche show that doesn't have mainstream appeal. lol
If you wish to know more, search "Tim & Eric free real estate"
The fact that the reply used "hieroglyphics" and cats have been pulling this shit longer ago than those were used as written language... And said poster's argument was that "someday" that wouldn't be the case?
Idk why I originally thought this was a schrodinger's cat joke. Thought it was he opened the box and the cat is happy because it's observed to be alive or something like that lol